Find out how simple it can be at a One Mindful Breath meditation session

WHETHER YOU WANT TO

+ learn to practice mindfulness+ deepen or refresh your meditation practice+ find a friendly group of people to meditate with, or+ dip a sceptical toe into the stream of secular Buddhism

Come to the Friends’ Centre in Moncrieff St, Mt Victoria on a Wednesday evening. If you’ve never meditated before you might like to come along on the first Wednesday of the month. Doors open at 7:15pm.

But then you can Just turn up

People with all levels of meditation experience are welcome to all our sessions, including total, complete and absolute beginners, and there’s no such thing as a silly question.

While there’s no charge to attend any of our events, a contribution towards future events is gladly accepted.

When we find it hard to follow meditation instructions we think that the problem is ours, and has nothing to do with the instructions. Perhaps these aren’t the right instructions for us, we may think. In reality, meditation is about discovering what works for us and what doesn’t, and this we have to see for ourselves. No-one can tell us the right way to meditate, so we can’t do it wrong.

— Ramsey Margolis

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Gratitude to Nick Hughes for creating this website, to Sotonian Jim ChampionandUnsplash for most of the lovely images, as well as to everyone who’s put a contribution in the box at an event and supports us through Aotearoa Buddhist Education Trust, enabling us to offer the teachings and experience of the practice without a fixed fee.Thanks also to all those who book the rooms, put out the chairs, welcome people, bring tea & bikkies, clear up at the end of a session, answer your texts, calls and emails, look after the community’s funds, take part in our care committee, and so much more. Words and spaces corralled by Ramsey Margolis.